"Constitution Check: Do Obamacare rules do enough to protect religious employers?" Lyle Denniston has this post today at the "Constitution Daily" blog of the National Constitution Center.Posted at 10:52 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"'Integrity' is mantra of candidates for spots on Pennsylvania's scandal-tainted high court":This article appears in today's edition of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"Constitution Check: May lawyers lead a campaign to defy the Supreme Court?" Lyle Denniston had this post Tuesday at the "Constitution Daily" blog of the National Constitution Center.Posted at 10:28 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"Canada's senior public officials targeted by little-known corruption law": In today's edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Sean Fine has a front page article that begins, "Canada is preparing to embark on a far-reaching program of financial surveillance of senior public officeholders, from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor-General David Johnston and Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin down to thousands of elected politicians and senior bureaucrats."Posted at 10:25 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"It's OK to watch porn at work during your lunch hour, Italy's highest court rules; Fiat wanted to sack an employee who was caught watching pornographic DVDs on his laptop": The Telegraph (UK) has this report today.Posted at 10:20 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"Parsing sentence: The Supreme Court considers reversing life sentences handed to minors."This article will appear in the October 17, 2015 issue of The Economist.Posted at 10:09 PM by Howard Bashman

"After narrow 2012 loss, death penalty opponents plan 2016 measure": Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, "With public support for capital punishment declining, activists who fell just short of winning a voter repeal of California's death penalty law in 2012 are preparing for another attempt in November 2016."Posted at 09:25 PM by Howard Bashman

"What Happens to Old Sentences When the Law Changes: The Supreme Court is grappling with the question of 'retroactivity' as justices review life sentences for juveniles." Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.Posted at 04:12 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"Big Business Could Shut Down Class-Action Suits With One Weird Trick: And the Supreme Court may just fall for it." Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report today.Posted at 04:07 PM by Howard Bashman

Thursday, October 15, 2015

"Death-row inmates, including Ballard, win a round in court": Riley Yates of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has a news update that begins, "A lawsuit by five Pennsylvania death-row inmates questioning the state's execution method will be allowed to go forward, the Commonwealth Court ruled Thursday in a suit that charges the Department of Corrections improperly changed the drug cocktail it intends to use for lethal injections."Posted at 04:03 PM by Howard Bashman

"What a more interconnected world means for the Supreme Court":This interview with Justice Stephen G. Breyer appeared on yesterday evening's broadcast of the PBS NewsHour.Posted at 12:48 PM by Howard Bashman

"The Death-Penalty Feud at the Supreme Court: The justices weigh a new set of cases and their implications for the Eighth Amendment and lethal injection." Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.Posted at 09:45 PM by Howard Bashman

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

"Justices Question Florida's Death Penalty System": Adam Liptak has this article in today's edition of The New York Times.

"There is no better symbol of the current judicial confirmation obstruction than Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo's nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Pennsylvania." So writes Michele L. Jawando in an op-ed headlined "Justice denied when judges refused a vote" in today's edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.Posted at 03:45 PM by Howard Bashman

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

"Biden and the Supreme Court": Online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a post that begins, "Joe Biden played a more consequential role in the history of the Supreme Court than almost any senator in American history."Posted at 03:15 PM by Howard Bashman